I am sure Senator Akaka has had people come up to him and say, 'That person is on Social Security disability and they have another job,' or, they are painting their house or whatever the case may be.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you. One of the most comforting things for me is that we started out about 10 years ago to work together and had an agenda, and after you took over as Chairman, we continued it.
Well, as I said, it would give me comfort to know that they have had a role of looking at this and have signed off and said, 'That is a way to get the job done,' and then you would agree on, well, let us agree on whether we are getting it…
When we talked to Mr. Borras this morning, I indicated to him that it would be good if you would look at it and comment on whether you think it makes sense in order to deal with the acquisition problem.
The situation has gotten worse because of the fact that we have had a 21-percent increase in the number of people who are asking for disability benefits.
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